Rated at Welterweight Wins by KO 31 Height 1.71 m Siblings Sam Fields Wins 72 Role Professional Boxer Total fights 84 | Nationality American Name Jackie Fields Division Welterweight Reach 69 in (175 cm) Losses 9 Martial art Boxing | |
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Born Jacob Finkelstein
February 9, 1908
Chicago, Illinois, U.S. ( 1908-02-09 ) Died June 3, 1987, Los Angeles, California, United States | ||
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Jackie Fields (Jacob Finkelstein, February 9, 1908 – June 3, 1987) was an American professional boxer who won the World Welterweight Championship twice. Statistical boxing website BoxRec lists Fields as the #19 ranked welterweight of all-time. Fields was elected to the United Savings-Helms Hall of Boxing Fame in 1972, the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1979, the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1987, and the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2004.
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- Young corbett iii w10 jackie fields
- Personal life
- Amateur career
- Olympic results 1924
- Professional career
- References
Personal life
Jackie Fields, who was Jewish, was born Jacob Finkelstein in Chicago, Illinois, on February 9, 1908. He was married on August 12, 1931. The couple separated in December 1940 and his wife, Martha, was granted a divorce in May 1944. Fields died in 1987 at the age of 79 in Los Angeles, California. At the time he was part owner of the Tropicana Hotel.
Amateur career
Over the course of Field's amateur career, he participated in 54 fights, winning 51 of them. Fields won a gold medal in featherweight boxing at the age of only 16 in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was at the time the youngest boxer to win a gold medal.
Olympic results (1924)
Professional career
Competing as a welterweight, Fields won the 1929 and 1932 championship titles.
On July 25, 1929 Fields faced Joe Dundee in a match for the welterweight championship. Fields was awarded the fight in the second round after Dundee, having been knocked down twice, delivered a foul blow which left Fields incapable of continuing the fight. Dundee, who had taken a $50,000 advance to participate in the fight, claimed that the foul was unintentional. Fields stated he believed Dundee, but noted that it was the only bout he had ever won on a foul.